and it's from it says the only official emails from official donald j trump. this email right here on my phone. it says, breaking, the democrats broke into the home of president donald j trump. there it is we can put it up on the screen this email that i just got. to me, it's very personal. it says lawrence, the radical left is corrupt. this is your chance to stand with president trump. please rush a donation immediately to publicly stand with president trump against this never ending witchhunt. this is to one of my many email addresses. it's actually the least email address used which somehow the trump email managers have found and they are suggesting once again the same contribution they suggested last night. they are suggesting $45. they figure that's where i'm good for. on the steele it's $45. but there is that problem deadline that's right there on the screen. the deadline which is right under the 45 dollar suggestion, the deadline is immediately. now i am bad with any deadline but immediately? that is just no kind of deadline that i can work with, so they

but so did donald trump well, so the trump supporters, they're both wrong. but you can't say one cause is right. so therefore they can say the election was stolen and the other causes wrong because they're republicans. all you do is empower the other side then to say we're going to go even further because the press isn't fair and that's what i object to the president blow the whistle on hillary clinton when two years after the 2016 election. she said that donald trump was illegitimate president nor did they blow the whistle and jimmy carter two years later when jimmy carter said donald trump was illegitimate president. so when donald trump says things like that, the press goes nuts when democrats do things like that the press yawns. area you were press secretary to president george w bush, and i'm sitting here thinking is there any press secretary? who's ever been in the white house? would say oh, you know the press treated my guy or yeah, my guy fairly and i have no complaints, isn't it? just part of being in the big game in the combat of the modern world,

joining us now is mary trump, the niece of donald trump. f a podcast, the mary trump show and author of'the reckoning - our nation's trauma and finding a way to heal'. mary, the lie about they even broke into my safe with the exclamation point. for me, that is the element in the donald trump statement that says the most. he seems shocked by that. this is inconceivable to him. although this kind of thing couldn't have happened without his lawyers having plenty of hints that this thing was going to come if you continue to resist this investigation or not cooperate in whatever way he was not cooperating. >> sure, and i agree lawrence that was the tell right there that even though of course, donald was informed ahead of time. and first of all i just want to say if the fbi has a search warrant they're not really breaking in, they're just doing their job and getting the information they're entitled to because it's been withheld from them. this is just another example in a very long line of examples of donald's narcissism and sense of entitlement.

and donald trump said no. and i feel like a typical republican politician would have thought about that offer. even offer room for negotiating. he completely took it off the table, even though it would've satisfied one of his top campaign promises. so i think that somebody like rob desantis would be more effectively able to work in this system, but he is more trump-y in terms of what he believes ideologically. he is very similar to donald trump. martin: thank you for your great analysis. thank you so much for your insights. and thanks to the viewers for good questions. and i wish you a good day, and i hope to talk to you again sometime in the near future, when we maybe have seen the results of the elections in >> when congress returns from its recess, the january 6 committee plans to continue investigating the u.s. capitol attack. the senate will work on more of bidens judicial nominations. and they will work on government funding to prevent a shutdown. watch live coverage of the house in september on c-span.

as a result i think that's all immensely benefit the donald trump. hind him. >> will: really quickly the key is how this lands with average americans. not necessarily the trump fan or the trump hater, but the average american. >> i don't think there's any doubt, and i think the answer is this doesn't end well for joe biden. inflation is 9.1%. we've got probably a recession going on, at least by traditional definitions. the border, the murder raid is skyrocketing all over the country, and this is what the biden department of justice is focusing on? this is not what americans want. this is unprecedented, banana republic style leadership. this is another reason why joe biden shouldn't be running for president in 2024. >> will: i think it is obvious to people regardless of which way they vote. great to see you as always, thank you for jumping on tonight. >> appreciate it, my man. >> will: a fast conversation about the fbi's raid on mar-a-lago with one of the brightest legal minds in the country, and that is next. ♪ ♪ woman tc: my a1c stayed here, it neede

someone tell that to donald trump or lindsey graham, because it keeps happening. evel of frustration with republicans i've been talking to in the last few weeks over not only how trump has been responding to mar-a-lago, but some of his closest acolytes has been sort of responding to it has only amplified it even more, created this sense of disorder that has become a front and center item at a time when republicans obviously, at least most republicans that i talk to, would like to be talking about inflation, about biden's approval ratings, you know, any number of other things than what's happening now. so yeah, it's bizarre that lindsey graham would bring this up now and would, you know, basically spend a day trying to walk it back. >> yeah, phillip, it's like republicans are trying to stand in front of this red wave that's about to break. they're standing in the way of history, which favors them. they're standing in the way of joe biden's approval ratings throughout most of the year, which favors them historically. inflation, at the highest level in over 40 years.

donald trump's lawyers haven't until 3 pm tomorrow to tell the justice department if donald trump opposes search warrant. the judge might then allow trump lawyers additional time to write a brief opposing willis of the search warrant. donald trump is a terrible judge of people. just terrible. he hires the very worst people, while claiming and sometimes believing that he hires the best people. donald trump relies almost entirely on physical appearance and judging people so prior to today, when he looked at merrick garland, he saw humility which donald trump interprets as weakness. he saw politeness, which donald trump interprets as weakness. he saw patience, -- professorial style, all of which donald trump interprets as weakness. donald trump discovered today that he has finally met the prosecutor who he cannot play games with. donald trump discovered today that he is finally up against the prosecutor who is tougher and sharper,, and more decisive, and confident than any of the prosecutors donald trump has had to contend with in any way. the proof of how desperately terrified donald trump

if donald trump is indicted, 74 million trump supporters will do exactly what they did when donald trump lost the election. nothing. the hundreds of them who might be inclined to write in the streets are spread out throughout the 50 states and it is possible that most of them will have already been convicted of rioting for donald trump at the capitol of january six, and the ringleaders of that riot at the capitol are all in prison. there will not be rioting in the streets in this country of 330 million people of donald trump is charged with a crime. not 1 million people have ever publicly gather for donald trump anywhere for any reason. 74 million trump voters are law abiding people with no criminal records and no criminal intent who have never rioted for anything and never will. if you add up every rabid trump supporter who has ever attended a trump rally, it doesn't come close to the number of people who marched in washington, d. c. alone against donald trump on the day after donald trump's inauguration. the largest protest in washington, d. c. history was a protest against donald trum

donald trump fought it. he went after those tax returns, presumably, he will continue to try to fight this one to the supreme court. >> i think he will continue to try to fight this to the supreme court. and if precedent is any guide on where the supreme court has been on this issue, i think you just have to look at the chief justice's ruling, after he ordered trump to turn over his tax returns to the manhattan district attorney's office. and in that ruling, robert said, no individual is above the rule of law in the united states, including the president. and therefore, trump has to turn the documents over. i suspect if it goes there again, you will get a similar ruling, despite, i think, some of the pro trump sentiment on the supreme court. and so, what's the outcome of that? i think there's a good chance some of these documents come into the public record. neil, it is within neil's purview to publish these, if he chooses to do so. undoubtedly, that's gonna be surrounded by all of the partisan bickering tha

there are a lot of successes under donald trump's belt on his watch. there are a lot of failures too. mostly failures of behavior. well, what about the january 6th committee's revelation about the fact that president trump, you know appeared to be indifferent. to the violence that the capital even ignited some of that violence and when he learned that people were armed was not discouraging their presence at the capitol. doesn't that raise them questions in your mind and certainly the press if we just talk about the press the press has been slow to catch up with the january 6th to me. that's not the press making those revelations. it's the it's you know, the political body. i wouldn't say that press is slow. most of the press is covering it live, but i do write about it in my book one and i take on the president when it came to january 6th, and i have said live on fox news regularly that president's worst mistake on january 6th was holding a rally on the ellipse the same day that there was a vote in the congress. you don't put nitro and glycerin anywhere

the client being donald trump. that is exactly what happened in the paul manafort case, where he told his lawyers to say something and made representations about what they should convey to the department of justice. and we got a court order from the chief judge in d. c. saying that that lawyer, there is no attorney client privilege there. the lawyer can reveal exactly who they learned the information from. and paul manafort was charged with lying to the government because he caused though statements to be made. exactly the same play can be made and the case law is very strong on that issue. and look, the lawyers have to make a choice. is it them or is that the client? i would actually suspect that it is the client. i think the lawyers would be incredibly foolhardy to sign something that they knew was false. >> bradley moss, it seems the client, donald trump, has a choice to make as of right now. these two can no longer up his lawyers, even for his own self protection. they're heading down a road where one way or an

nobody holds any of these people accountable except donald trump. right off the bat, the russian collusion and dirty dossier from hillary clinton. that was all lies. that was not under donald trump, even when it was proved to be false. proved to be a lie. he spoke his whole time as president -- the first impeachment. a total lie. second impeachment, total lie. in the end, january 6? total freaking live, because -- freaking lie, because if i was him and these people supposedly joined the party to try and change things, which he did -- he did. we never would've had the vaccine if he was not in there. if ayden was in there, it would have taken six years to get -- if biden was in there, it would have taken six years to get the vaccine. and we never would have had an investigation into where the virus came from. host: we will leave it there. guest: literally, none of that is true. the first impeachment was about donald trump leveraging zelenskyy, the president of ukraine, withholding weapons from him until he agreed to investigate his political rival, is

from donald trump. on tuesday rudy giuliani's lawyers demanded to know whether he is a criminal target of the fulton county grand jury investigation of election fraud in georgia. and on tuesday the house ways and means committee when it's case in a federal court of appeals to obtain donald trump's tax returns. on wednesday donald trump took the fifth amendment 440 times in under of questioning in an investigation by new york state attorney general. and also that day too much of the news media fell for donald trump's false framing that the search warrant story would somehow be good for him politically. on thursday a crazed trump supporter who is at the capital capitol on january 6th decided it was time to go to war against the fbi after hearing so much republican condemnation of the fbi this week including from donald trump. that trump supporter fired a nail gun at an fbi field office in cincinnati injuring no one. then led police on a car chase that turned into a six hour standoff at the end of which th

has ever happened in donald trump's life if donald trump had never been president. donald trump's accountant, allen weisselberg, the man who and all all of the money going into end going out of donald trump's accounts pled guilty for 15 felonies involving that money. 15 financial crimes. all of those crimes were committed to benefit donald trump in some way. some indirect ways. nothing as bad as that has happened in donald trump's business life, including donald trump's multiple business bankruptcies. it obviously brings donald trump much closer to facing criminal charges for many of the same financial crimes. but donald trump's legal life is so bad now that that is not our lead story tonight. we will cover the weisselberg guilty plea and what it means for donald trump in our next segment. but we begin tonight with an even more important story of the federal criminal charges that donald trump could face under the espionage act. today, a florida federal judge magistrate held a hearing on motions by some of these news organizations including according to the new york

donald trump's of the most. donald trump does it more andbu louder than anybody else. might look as an example of the democrats numerous democrats because of how close ohio was in 2004 that they stole the election in ohio when i cite cases where c democrats said the machines were painted and wisconsin the 2024 election. there cases where hillary clinton questions the popular vote in the state because it didn't match the exit polls and she allege something hadti to happen to turn the election away from john kerry in 2004. case after case democrat after democrat at jeff king and they were sitting donald trump was not the legitimate winner.r. that happened in 2016 because they said members of the pro college data classified briefing to find out what happened when trunk lid with russia but they didn't -- he didn't call it with russia but they said he did. >> host: as i'm listening to and thinking what a difference between people having al gore stepped aside. he didn't exercise his influence as vice president to try to undo the election results and clearly there was no atta

donald trump was not surprised by it. omething stunning about the notion that trump -- the way that trump tweeted it out, or notified people through whatever social channel he now has still available to him because he can't be on twitter. he said they were currently at mar-a-lago, which is a dramatic notion that he was basically live messaging about the fbi being there. it wasn't, in fact, true. they'd already left by the time he started notifying everybody and the public. i guess people were stunned by the notion this thing was happening. once you started to think about it, given the number of venues and areas and legal venues in which donald trump is in legal trouble, cases in which he has potential criminal liability, the notion that, at some point, it would come to this isn't at all really surprising. it is shocking when it is in front of you but not surprising in the long run. i think, in some ways, maybe the most surprising thing is of all the areas where trump is being investigated, where he has legal liability, whe

if the president does it, it's not illegal, especially if donald trump does it. >> i do want to talk about that because the process of declassification. is it what basically former trump is saying, which is you can wave a magic wand if you're the president and go, poof, you're declassified. is that how it works? >> constitutionally, yes, okay? the declassification authority rests with the chief executive. that's the president. the president is not just the head of the executive branch. he is the executive branch. there are all manner of forms and protocols skand procedures d worksheets that one should follow so it's done in an orderly matter so people know what's classified and declassified. but if we're talking about just the law and constitutionally, the president has the power. and it cannot be -- no pun intended -- it cannot be trumped because one of the agencies in the executive branch has come up with a worksheet that wasn't filled out. so, we do need to keep that in mind. the law allows very broad -- perhaps even broader than we like -- but the reality is very broad declassific

know donald trump did. they know donald trump knows he did, therefore it does not have to be protected from him discovering it. it just seems to me that there are going to be some real possibilities in this, and the justice department normally has to live under that burden of they have executed a highly controversial search warrant, at least controversial from the standpoint of trump supporters saying 70 million people, but they can't say anything about it, just as we can't say anything about way why they did it. here's a judge ordering that, to say something about why they didn't. in a way, that is a gift of a certain kind of relief to merrick garland at the justice department, to be able to say at this early stage, okay, here is some of why we did this. >> i think you are right. and having known merrick garland for decades, i think he must be of two minds. part of him must be saying, this does not established a good precedent for the justice department, because other people in other circumstances are now

." >>> just ahead, donald trump's legal woes are mounting. some of his closest allies, being called to testify in election probes. >>> the department of justice, reasserting the seriousness of the classified documents seized by the fbi in its investigation. >>> primary elections will soon be held in alaska and wyoming. why a republican trump critic, liz cheney, faces a difficult fight to hold onto her house he. >>> and china has reportedly sanctioned officials in taiwan, claiming, the recent visit by u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi, is a sign of pro- independence activities. >>> live from cnn center, this is " cnn newsroom," with rosemary chance. >> good to have you with us. we begin this hour with a group of growing illegal troubles for trump and his closest allies and advisors. first, the u.s. justice department is opposing the release of the affidavit of used to get the search warrant for trump's for the home. the two apartments is, the ongoing investigation and vials highly-classified criminal materials, and making the details of could co

sadly, the big lie and the big liars are still the sentiment within donald trump's republican party. liz cheney's had the courage to speak out to, tell the truth, we are dissent audacity to tell the truth, and there's just no place for that in donald trump's gop. a sad result. we certainly hoped that at some point the fever breaks, but the fever is not broken. donald trump still has an iron grip of in the republican party. >> congressman schiff, surely you understand if liz cheney begins to speak with a concession speech, we will go to her. if your committee's business should continue next year into the next congress, you now know that liz cheney will not be a member of that committee. what would that mean to the committee? >> well, her loss will be very considerable. it is our goal to finish our work the session. we intend to have more hearings in the fall, we intend to produce our report and our recommendations into as much as we can to act on those recommendations, but whether the committee continues or doesn't continue in her absence, it's a loss to the institution to have someon

and donald trump knows. it this program will not waste one second of your time playing the trump game of pretending that donald trump wants the affidavit made public. after considering the department of justice argument today, to keep all the affidavits sealed, the judge said that he is inclined, that was his word, inclined, to release some of it and, or, the justice department to spend next week redacting information from the affidavit to make sure that public release of the affidavit will not harm the ongoing investigations where the justice department said today the investigation in florida was in its early stages. if the judge approves the redactions submitted by the justice department next thursday the judge could release the redacted version of the affidavit that. today, the judge released two more pages of documents concerning the search warrant including the cover page of the application for a search ward which indicated that the fbi believed that the execution of the search warrant would find evidenc

he's going to stay away from implicating donald trump. nvolved at the trump organization. that would be his behavior and potentially other people who may have worked to keep these -- there were separate books that were kept and you know, what did that involve and look like and who was involved. i think that's sort of what we're going to be seeing in october should this go to trial. it's scheduled to go to trial. >> rebecca, is this a good deal for prosecution? >> i think it's a very good deal and you know, i think people were a little confused before we understood there was going to be a cooperation agreement in which he was helping the company. that's critical because i think that his testimony basically ensures a conviction against the company. in new york, companies have to act through their agents an the only way in which you convict a company is if somebody high up in that company was acting on behalf of the organization and in the press release, it's clear that not only is he going to testify that he benefitted from this deal, but th

the fear of donald trump, the fear of what donald trump could reveal about him. lindsey graham knows that donald trump is a pathological liar, so donald trump knows it lindsey graham knows that donald trump could say something about them that is false. or say something about lindsey graham that donald trump couldn't prove. that conscious question, what are you going to tell your children or grandchildren to stop donald trump does not apply to lindsey graham. i'm like strom thurman, lindsey graham does not have children and is not suspected of having children that we don't know about. never been married, doesn't even have a dog. he has by outward appearance no one and nothing to love more than the title of senator. and that probably explains lindsey graham probably as well as anything can. he will do anything and say anything to hold on to the title of senator, a title he knows donald trump could rip away from him by endorsing another republican to run against lindsey graham and south carolina. if that is the explanation of senator lindsey graham, think of the hol

the f b i has writer donald trump's a state in florida in an unprecedented swoop on the home of a former american president, trump claims agents broke into his safe at the mar logo complex, his already under investigation for allegedly removing official records from the white house but from claims the ride is aimed at preventing him from running for president again in 2024, mar lago. the morning after the search police remained at the scene to secure the property. trump referred to his florida residence as the winter whitehouse because he often received world leaders and heads of state there. the search was part of an investigation into whether the former president illegally moved classified whitehouse records to the estate. back in january boxes of documents were also confiscated from the property trump within new york during the latest search, but protested online these the dock times brown nation as my beautiful home mara, lago and palm beach, florida is currently under siege rated and occupied by a large group of f b, i. agents, nothing like this has ever happened to a president of t

she defied donald trump, vehicle code to impeach him, donald trump 70% in wyoming in 2020. you see only two blue counties. that's liz cheney's only hope. are there enough democrats, enough independents who will switch parties? there are indications that it's happening in wyoming, but is it enough? look at the map and all this red. liz cheney understands the odds are overwhelming. she expects when we come back to this map by the time the votes are counted, that will be salmon. >> yeah, i'm no mathematician, but that map looked very red. joining me now is chris wallace, host of cnn's "who's talking to chris wallace." also our chief political correspondent and "state of the union" co-anchor dana bash and scott jennings. great you have to here as we await the results. chris, what are you watching for tonight? >> well, frankly, unless there's a political earthquake, excuse me, and we don't expect there to be and that liz cheney is going to lose, her statement, her speech and what she lays out as her path going forward. clearly it's going to be a call to arms against donald trump

donald trump stole those. ladies and gentlemen, america is in danger tonight. what is a nuclear secret, exactly, and what did trump plan to do with that? did he plan to defect to moscow? give the launch codes to vladimir putin, start a rogue state in the bahamas? nobody said, but that didn't stop -- from suggesting that donald trump should be executed for committing these crimes, whatever these crimes were. we still don't know. there still aren't facts floating around. there were reasons why they could not tell you the whole story. you are just going to have to trust them. there was a lot of that. the endless intelligence about something called "the rule of law," and how no one is above that, not even a former president! the people who pay rioters to burn down our city, who will pay for nationals to ignore immigration status and move to our country permanently as an expense -- for breaking our laws. keep in mind: no one is above the law. joe scarborough was accused of committing murder while serving in congress -- without being charged or even investigated. no o

and donald trump said no. and i feel like a typical republican politician would actually think about that offer and say maybe there is room for negotiating there. he took it completely off the table even though it would have satisfied his top campaign balances. so i do think ron desantis will be able to effectively work in the system but he has very trampy for lack of a better word in terms of what he believes policy wise and ideologically he will be similar to donald trump. >> thank you for your great analysis you too. thank you for your insight and thank you our reviewers for your questions and i wish you a good day. and a fine week and hope to talk to you again sometime in the near future. and we maybe have seen the results. goodbye. have a good day. bye-bye, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> over the past few months, the january 6 committee has conducted a series of hearings revealing the findings from its investigation. all week, watch c-span as we look back at the committee's eight hearings featuring p

and famous, based on his relationship with donald trump.e thing and donald trump another? i have spoken to dr fauci about this. he was the unwilling combatant at first where donald trump would take the stage and make statements about covid that anthony fauci felt he was compelled to respond to. he would then follow donald trump, and have to redirect the conversation about drugs like hydroxychloroquine which donald trump said was a treatment for covid and doctor fauci said this actually does not have a lot of evidence and over the course of 2020, whether it was donald trump himself or his deputies, dr fauci increasingly was in the public eye pushing back on what donald trump had said. a difficult tightrope to walk, as you remember, with republicans and opponents still going after him to this day about the lockdown restrictions he put in place. how likely do you think now that he has announced he is stepping down is it likely that that is going to continue, or do you think they will go away? some of it will continue. we an election coming up

karl. >>> good morning and welcome to "this week." >>> if there were any lingering doubts about donald trump's hold on the republican party they were erased tuesday night. liz cheney, trump's loudest and most persistent critic in the party and the number one target of his revengeance campaign, went down in a landslide primary defeat. eight of the ten house republicans who voted to impeach him will be gone in the next congress. and in state after state, candidates endorsed by trump for governor, for senate and for other offices have prevailed in republican primaries. they owe their nominations to trump and their allegiance, too, but as trump tightens his grip on the party the legal walls around him seem to be closing in. this week, a federal judge in florida suggesting that he may release portions of the affidavit used to seek an fbi search warrant for mar-a-lago. a criminal investigation the justice department said is open and in its early stages. in new york, the trump organization's chief financial officer is going to rikers prison. trump once called allen weisselberg a loyal employee and on

that is what donald trump's former national security adviser, john bolton, said about donald trump'sthat he had a standing order that any classified documents, that he took from the oval office, to anywhere else in the residence in the white house, automatically became declassified. john bolton told the new york times, he had never heard of the standing order that mr. trump's office claimed to have in place. it is, he said, almost certainly, a lie. joining us now is glenn gerstell, former general counsel for the national security agency serving the obama administration, and the trump administration. thank you very much for joining us tonight. let me begin by saying, i don't know anything about classification law. and i'm not sure how much of it, as regards the president, is actually written in federal statute, and how much of it is tradition, how much of it is a set of assumptions and rules? we are discovering so many other areas of government, that what we thought was rock solid turns out to be, to a great extent, gentleman's agreements, and things that are not written in law as sol

endorsed by donald trump of course. in arizona, two election deniers clinched republican nominations for high-profile positions that would oversee current elections. carrie lake, won the arizona gubernatorial nomination on the back of trump again, which she won by repeatedly spreading nonsense like. this >> you've called joe biden and illegitimate president. what does that mean? >> he lost the election and he shouldn't be in the white house. we had a corrupt election. who is me have inflation, sky-high inflation and can afford our gasoline, can afford our groceries is because we had a rigged, stolen election. the facts are there, the forensic audit proves it. >> that's all lies, completely lies. she would have to know that their lies. not only that the forensic audit, remember that we're republican thing where they were counting the ballots in that stadium, came out to show that joe biden was the president. anyway, that sounds a lot like lakes fellow arizona republican, another nominee for secretary of state mark finchem

like donald trump -- isn't that the you who said yesterday, donald trump can release the warrant. he should release the warrant. if it's such a scam, donald -- hey, donald, i know you watch -- if it's such a scam, listen to me, release the warrant. >> they would rather actually leave it hanging out there. it's the logic. >> you got the warrant, okay? stop the scam, stop the grift, release the warrant. let us see why they came into mar-a-lago. let us see what they're looking for. let us see what illegal actions they believe you're taking. you got the warrant in your hands. let us see it. i think it will be good for america. and, by the way, if it's a scam, we'll be able to tell on the face of that warrant. just releaset now. >> search is prompting strong criticism from top republican leaders. a statement from senate minority leader mitch mcconnell yesterday reads, quote, the country deserves a thorough and immediate explanation of what led to the events on monday. attorney general garland and the department of justice should have already provided answers to the american people and m

at donald trump's home.rtment's filing in that case, which the judge will consider in a hearing tomorrow, the department says that the affidavit contains highly sensitive information about witnesses, including witnesses interviewed by the government specific investigative techniques, and information acquired by law to be kept under seal pursuant to federal criminal procedure, six easy. disclosure of the government's affidavit at this stage would also likely chill future cooperation by witnesses whose assistance may be sought as this investigation progresses -- and here is the key part -- as well as in other high-profile investigations. joining us now is mark s. zaid, an attorney who specializes in national security and security clearances. thank you very much for joining us tonight. this is relevant reporting tonight about the subpoena to the archives for the january 6th committee material because of that reference in the justice department filing of in florida, saying, the sources used -- the material used

information, and urged the intelligence community to conduct a damage assessment, to see how badly donald trump threatened national security. the house intelligence committee chair adam schiff said, quote, the redacted affidavit makes clear trump kept highly classified national defense information at the public resort. if that wasn't alarming enough, some wasn't even in folders, merely intermixed with new clips and other debris. the senate intelligence committee chair mark warner, who noted his committee's requests, has made on a bipartisan basis, stress that the doj's investigation must be allowed to proceed without interference. also the house oversight committee chair, carolyn maloney, also demanded a damage assessment, adding, quote, trump's reckless handling of our country's most sensitive documents placed our national security at grave risk and blatantly violated the presidential records act. congressman eric swalwell, a member of the house intelligence committee, who will join us next, made this observation. quote, why did he take them? unclear. but we know the same guy traded military a

there are the people in the world around donald trump. donald trump does have a few great gifts, and one of them is he's got miss wolf like ability to smell weakness. if there's a corrupt, if there's corruption, if there's weakness, if there's the ability to bully, he can sense that and people and use it for his own purposes. and he also saw that there are some inherent weaknesses in the american political system that we had not suspected before. but he, he said maybe in a sub rational way, where he's got the bullies instinct for the person to target. and he wasn't above threatening and intimidating people as best he could. and using pardons as a means of basically undermining investigations into those around him. you know, the pressure of the constitution, the president inherited the kind of kingly, pardon, power, that the british kings used to have. but in modern times, this power has been kind of regularized precedents before trump did not pardon people at when they were. they delegated it to a to a committee that made recommendations. and then presence would do pardons, typically

here's what people are complaining about when it comes to donald trump's complaints. >> donald trump should release the warrant. he should release the warrant. >> let's call on president trump to release the search warrant. >> release the warrant. let us have an understanding of why they did this. >> let us see the search warrant. i would love to see what they got. >> i mind love to see him release the search warrant. >> what's to keep donald trump and his team from releasing the search warrant? >> asha? >> right, i mean there's nothing. i think what will be more telling is when they give him the inventory of what they took because that's going to tell you exactly why they were so concerned. i suspect it will have a list of, you know, not with any specificity but describing that they had taken classified documents. and i think that's the key here, ari. the crime is having classified documents on the premises without being authorized to possess -- to possess them. donald trump lost his security clearance the minute that he left office. biden did not extend a security clearance to him.